At 2010-10-27 11:58, Alan Millar wrote:
Personally, I think the project plan as proposed is pretty well
thought-out and should work quite well.
> As a project, we're not crazy about grouping edits through a proxy
> username. That isolation from the OSM community makes accountability
> and dispute resolution difficult.
While that is true in general, I think the plan as described is a
focused, well-defined scope of name updates on existing objects, which
eliminates much of the usual nature of disputes and problems. We
aren't talking about new roads, road changes, or wacky tagging.
> there is no need for last century
> products like a spreadsheet.
I think that is an over-simplistic dismissal of a perfectly adequate
technology for translating a list of names.
Exactly! Similarly, in a world of CAD/CAM, there are still plenty of jobs
for which pencils, paper, rulers, screwdrivers, hammers, saws, and drills
are functional and appropriate. I'm a career electronics engineer,
programmer, and database jockey. I still end up using a text editor
(TextPad rocks!) for a lot of data manipulation when it is the fastest and
easiest tool for the job.
A spreadsheet with only the necessary information on it, and not a bunch of
other data and functionality to be corrupted or accidentally triggered with
mis-keys, seems exactly the right solution. It takes a few minutes to train
the most basic of computer users to use it, too.
--
Alan Mintz <[email protected]>
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